Dana Goin

SHE Lab
Education

PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

MA, Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley 

BS, Environmental Economics and Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Research Interests: perinatal and reproductive health, environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental justice

Research Description

Dr. Goin is currently a postdoctoral scholar with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF and is a visiting scholar with the SH/E lab. She is a reproductive epidemiologist who focuses on the joint impact of environmental and social stressors on adverse pregnancy outcomes.  Her work leverages both large population-level administrative databases and detailed pregnancy cohort data to shed insight on both the society-level factors that explain population-level differences in pregnancy outcomes and the mechanisms that explain those disparities. She is also a methodologist who identifies and evaluates the limitations of study design and analysis approaches with the goals of better understanding and preventing threats to causal inference, which is notoriously challenging when studying the pregnancy period.

Selected Publications
  1. Goin DE, Casey JA, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Cushing LJ, Morello-Frosch R. Environmental hazards, social inequality, and fetal loss: Implications of live-birth bias for estimation of disparities in birth outcomes. Environmental Epidemiology. 2021 Apr;5(2).
  1. Goin DE, Gomez AM, Farkas K, Duarte C, Karasek D, Chambers BD, Jackson AV, Ahern J. Occurrence of fatal police violence during pregnancy and hazard of preterm birth in California. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 2021 Mar 10.
  1. Goin DE, Izano MA, Eick SM, Padula AM, DeMicco E, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R. Maternal experience of multiple hardships and fetal growth: extending environmental mixtures methodology to social exposures. Epidemiology. 2020 Oct 13;32(1):18-26.
  1. Goin DE, Rudolph KE, Gomez AM, Ahern J. Mediation of firearm violence and preterm birth by pregnancy complications and health behaviors: addressing structural and postexposure confounding. American journal of epidemiology. 2020 Aug 1;189(8):820-31.

Honors and Awards

Hearst Foundation Environmental Health Scholar

Cheri Pies Dissertation Award – Best Application of Life Course Theory

Society for Epidemiologic Research Tyroler Student Paper Award – Finalist

Rheumatology Foundation Graduate Student Preceptorship